How to Recover Deleted Text Messages on iPhone

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iPhone Text Messages Recovery

By Selena KomezUpdated on January 24, 2017


Accidentally deleted text messages on your iPhone? Lost SMS on your iPhone due to iOS 8 update, restore factory setting,ect… Whether it’s from pressing delete on the wrong message, or whether your device has fallen prey to mischievous little hands that have poked, prodded and deleted important text messages from your iPhone.

If you want to recover text messages on your iPhone missing or have deleted text messages from your iPhone accidentally. Keep on reading this article! You can restore iPhone text messages back! But keep in mind, the sooner the better result you’ll get. Otherwise, you’ll never see these deleted text messages again.

Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iPhone 6S/6/5/5S/5C/4S/4

To recover deleted SMS from iPhone,you can use this iPhone Text Messages Recovery softwareiPhone Data Recovery program,which allows you scan and recover text messages from iPhone 6s/6, iPhone 5s/5, iPhone 4s/4 in three recovery modes: recover deleted messages from iPhone, extract iPhone messages from iTunes backup and retrieve iPhone text messages from iCloud backup (iOS 8 iCloud backup file is not supported yet currently. The support version comes soon).

Free download the iPhone data recovery software:

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Part 1: Directly Retrieve Deleted Text Messages from iPhone

Note:iPhone Text Messages Recovery provides the “Smart Recovery” feature for you recover deleted iPhone data quickly and easily.If you don’t know where to find the deleted data under what circumstances,we suggest you click the “Smart Recovery” feature to choose How You Lost Your Data,which will improve the rate of data recovery.

smart iphone data recovery main page

This recovery mode allows you to scan your iOS devices directly to find all the deleted files recently,or recover data from your inaccessible/lost device.

Step 1. Launch iPhone SMS Recovery Program & Connect iPhone 5S to PC

Here,we take recover SMS on iPhone 5S directly for example,you can follow the same use guid to get lost messages back from other iPhone devices.

Now, you are required to connect your iPhone 5S to computer via a USB cable. The program will detect your iPhone 5S immediately and then display your device in the starting window. Now, please click the button “Start” to begin scanning your device. During the scan, you can start previewing the found data.

contact iphone to the computer

Step 2. Select the File Types you want to Recover

Please choose the file types you want to recover from iPhone device,including photos, vidoes, text messages, contacts, voice memos, notes, messages from Kik/WhatsApp/WeChat app data, etc.If you want to recover deleted SMS from iPhone ,please click “Message” option,then click “Next” button go to next step.

select file to recover

Step 3.Scan Your iPhone for Deleted Data

Click “Scan” to search for your deleted data,then the program begins scanning your device automatically for deleted messages.

scan iphone and search deleted data

Step 4.Preview and Recover Deleted SMS from iPhone

A few minutes later, you can preview all messages in the scan result before recovering them. Then you can tick the items you want to recover and then save them to your computer by clicking the “Recover” button.

recover deleted sms from iphone

You should keep your iPhone 5S connected to your computer during the whole process.

Note: As you can see, the SMS Messages shown in the scan result contain both the deleted messages and the existing messages in different colors on your iPhone 5S. If you want to get back the deleted messages only, you can use the button on the top: Only display the deleted items.

Part 2: Recover Deleted iPhone Messages from iTunes Backup

Step 1. Choose iTunes Backup and Scan it

After installing and launching the iPhone Data Recovery program, choose “Recover from iTunes Backup” and you’ll get the following interface as. All your iTunes backup files have been found and displayed. Here, you need to choose the one for your iPhone and click “Scan” button.

extract backup file from itunes

Step 2. Preview and Restore iPhones Text Messages

When the scan over, you can see all the content contained in the backup file will be extracted and displayed in categories. You can preview the detailed content before you perform the message recovery for your iPhone. Then you can mark the data you want and save those data on your computer by clicking the “Recover” button.

recover text messages from itunes

Tips: To avoid losing your important iPhone data, immediate backup is very important and necessary. You had better back up your data on your computer regularly.

Now, download iPhone Data Recovery program to have a try!

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What’s mroe about iPhone Text Messages Recovery:

The iOS 8/iPhone Text Message Recovery provides you 3 ways to recover deleted text messages and iMessages from iPhone

-Support multiple devices: Besides support iPhone 5s, iPhone 5, iPhone 4s, and more former models, it supports iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus and the latest iOS 8
-3 recovery modes: Recover data from iOS devices, iTunes and iCloud backups.
-Save messages to device or computer: Save recovered text messages directly to your iPhone or to your computer.
-Preview supportted: Preview data to before you decide to recover it.

Related Use Guide You May Want to Know:

How to restore deleted iMessages/MMS on iPhone 6s Plus

How to recover deleted SMS from iPhone 6

Recover lost iPhone messags after iOS 9 upgrade

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